Posted on 08/02/2024 8:41:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Four key pillars of the global climate are melting in the heat trapped by rising fossil fuel emissions, a new study has found.
The relatively stable climate that nurtured human civilization depends in large part on these structures: the ice sheets of Greenland and West Antarctica, the Amazon rainforest and the Atlantic currents that warm Europe.
Under current policies, the world faces a scenario in which those pillars have roughly even odds of either surviving or collapsing during the next three centuries, according to results published Thursday in Nature Communications.
The scientists warned that if the pillars are fatally undermined by heat, the resulting damage could prove impossible to undo — even if temperatures are successfully brought down later in the 21st century.
Even so, the long timeline of those findings makes them, if anything, optimistic relative to other recent ones: They come on the heels of a string of disturbing studies about key global systems like the conveyor-belt Atlantic current that keeps Europe temperate, or the West Antarctic Ice Sheet that keeps global sea levels stable.
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Even odds, which means it will or it won’t, and neither is more likely than the other.
We are currently at a dangerously low atmospheric CO2 level. Normal levels saw much more vegetation and thriving species all over the planet.
When a moron talks about fossil fuels, I like to ask them if dinosaurs lived thousands of feet below the surface in the arctic and if that showed a warmer planet existed and thrived in the past.
They cannot have it both ways. It is either a fossil fuel or a naturally occurring hydrocarbon. Higher CO2 and global warming is either a good thing or a bad thing.
EC
They could really care less about the future of humanity, really. They want to exterminate political enemies, exterminate nonvegans, exterminate the unborn, exterminate white men. The outrage os over you're lack of compliance to power and the state. That you won't agree to be a serf. SIMPs and men hating lesbians feel so powerless and this is one of their cadre of canards they love to use on conservatives.
Yet another Watermelon “Could” story.... Monkeys “Could” fly out your ass.
At least they’re smart enough to make disproving it impossible.
“I feel sorry for the Obamas. Their two oceanfront mansions will be underwater soon.”
The one at Martha’s Vineyard is well above sea level. Where is the second?
Pillars that rest upon the shell of a giant tortoise.
I knew someone who did exactly that coming up on Y2K. She also borrowed heavily against her equity in her house.
She said the records would all be lost. You should have seen the look on her face when I asked her if she really thought the credit card companies and banks were stupid enough to not keep backup records of balances going into the year 2000. She filed for bankruptcy before 2000 ended.
Unfortunately, we don’t control the world and all of its complex systems. It is stupid and foolish to think that we can and will only end up hurting ourselves.
“Their two oceanfront mansions will be underwater soon.”
The Oahu house has a high seawall. He should be ok for the next century.
Hawaii.
So, is the erf going to collapse into a black hole?
1. The sky isn't falling.
2. The earth will outlive and survive humanity.
3. Global warming is largely the earth correcting itself from the last ice age.
4. Carbon tax is a phony money grab by left wing politicians, looking to enrich their already rich friends.
5. The gig is up, and people are catching on to this phony climate wokeness.
Now they've upped it to 300 years!
This should shake the taxpayer tree to enrich the greedy cultists for a LONG time.
Afraid we may be partying like 1776 soon
Government funded study?
"All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made"
John 1:3
"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist."
Col 1:16-17
[[Four key pillars of the global climate are melting in the heat trapped by rising fossil fuel emissions,]]
Yeah by golly, because, you know, we are almost all the way up to 1/4 of what atmospheric CO2 has been in the past when life flourished!
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